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Alexandra Carter is the Digital Imaging Librarian at the University of Maryland Libraries in College Park, Maryland, and previously worked in both public and academic libraries. Her current interests include the digital humanities and reference service in archives and special collections. When not busy with library things she reads and watches lots of sci-fi and fantasy, cooks delicious food, and plays board games with friends.
Disclaimer: These are my impressions of the MLS program at the University of Maryland College of Information Studies, based on my own experiences, and are not meant to be representative of the opinions of all students, the college, or the university. I attended the iSchool, as it is informally known, beginning in Fall 2008, and I graduated in May 2010.
Maryland's iSchool currently offers three degree programs: Masters in Library Science (MLS), Masters in Information Management (MIM), and PhD in Information Studies. As of this fall, a Masters in Human Computer Interaction (HCIM) will also be available. The iSchool enrolls over 500 graduate students each year across all degree programs — I recall being told by an admissions advisor several years ago that about 300 of those were MLS students.
The iSchool is located at the main University of Maryland campus in College Park, Maryland. MLS classes are also offered at the Universities at Shady Grove campus in Rockville, Maryland, and online. Starting this fall, it is now possible to complete the MLS program entirely online.
Specializations, Concentrations, and Dual Degree Programs
There are two MLS specializations — Archives, Records, and Information Management and School Library Media — and three concentrations — E-Government, Lifelong Access, and Information and Diverse Populations, with requirements of varying complexity for each. There is also one dual History and Library Science (HiLS) degree program. Though I did take several Archives course, I opted for what students loving refer to as "the general track." If you're interested in a specilization or concentration, it's a good idea to start planning early to make sure you can complete all the required classes.
Program Requirements
There are both "core" and "required" classes at the iSchool. All are mandatory if you'd like to graduate, but there is a difference. Core classes are supposed to be completed within your first 18 credits (though I know anecdotally that this is more a guideline than a strict rule) while required classes may be taken any time during the program.
The core classes are: Information Access (aka "Reference"), Organization of Information, Information Technology, PLUS one of the following, depending on your concentration: Users and Information Context (aka "User Studies 101"), Archival Principles, Practices, and Programs (aka "Intro to Archives"), or Library Media Specialists as Information Professionals.
The required classes are: A management course (there's a School Library Media specific version, and an "everybody else" version) and a 100 hour field study (after being an optional elective, the field study becomes a requirement for all newly admitted students in Fall 2011).
Students also have the option of writing a Masters thesis, but few actually do.
Program Strengths
One of the program's biggest strengths is, undeniably, the location. Maryland's College Park campus is located just outside Washington, D.C. in Prince George's County, Maryland. As college towns go, College Park isn't the greatest, but a 20-30 minute trip via campus shuttle and Metro gets you in to downtown D.C., which is chock full of things to do in your free time. More importantly for your professional aspirations, there are many libaries, archives, and other information centers in the D.C. Metro area.
If you're looking to work, intern, or volunteer during school, you're certain to find something. (It's less certain whether it'll be a paying gig. Sorry!) I personally worked part time on campus during my two years, but I knew others working at federal libraries, law firms, public libraries, local schools, and more. The National Archives and Records Administration is located in College Park—just a short walk, drive, bus, or bike trip away from campus—and many archives students obtain student positions there. Of course, all of this is just a quirk of geography, not a reflection of the program itself, but it's too much of an asset to be overlooked.
As I noted before, there are a number of concentrations and specializations, many of which are well-regarded. (I don't put too much stock in rankings, though. U.S. News recently reported that Maryland had a great program in Digital Libraries. There is no such program, or even any such class.) If you need a school media certification, want to be an archivist, or are otherwise intrigued by one of the specializations, the variety of choices is great.
Program Weaknesses
The fact that you're reading a post on Hack Library School leads me to believe that you have at least a basic awareness of some of the common problems facing LIS education, for instance the theory/practice divide. Yes, that's also an issue at Maryland. And, yes, course offering often don't quite keep up with the most recent developments in the field.
One of the biggest obstacles that I and my fellow students encountered was the iSchool administration. Communication between the administration and students is generally not good. I experienced this first hand when I wanted to transfer credits from another university and received three conflicting sets of instructions: one from an iSchool administrator, one from the iSchool website, and one from the graduate school website. Be prepared for a sometimes frustrating level of misinformation and confusion.
The flip side of the variety offered at Maryland's iSchool is that resources can be stretched pretty thin. Core and required classes have to be offered on a regular basis, which means that other classes sometimes fall to the wayside. Sadly, this means that some really interesting offerings only come around once every 2-3 years. Their appearances in the course schedules can also be dictated by the college's ability to find adjunct instructors.
One thing that's stood out to me over the past three years is the turnover in the iSchool faculty and staff, which stretches the resources of the school further. I'm not privy to any of the administrative politics that undoubtedly have contributed to this trend, but it doesn't work to the benefit of the students. For instance, for some students this means having two or three different advisors over two years.
Student Involvement
iSchool students have established student chapters of several major professional organizations. They include ALA, SLA, ASIST, and SAA (the student chapter goes by Student Archivists at Maryland, or SAM). The activity level of the various organizations varies from year to year, depending on the interest level of the student leaders and the student body at large. The student groups organize a variety of events from chats with area professionals to library and archives tours to monthly happy hours.
Because most students at the iSchool are very busy, it can be difficult to connect with classmates. Students commute to campus from all over the region and most have at least one job or internship. Outside the initial core classes, students from different specializations and concentrations have little contact with each other, so I urge anyone who chooses Maryland to make an effort to meet people outside your niche area. It may involve a little extra effort on your part, but I know that the connections I've made here were well worth it!
There's not a lot of funding to be had in the iSchool. There are Graduate Assistantships available in the college, either in the college office, research centers, or with individual faculty members, but compared to the total number of students, there really aren't many. The University Libraries used to have about 40 Graduate Assistants, but do to funding cuts, there are now closer to 10. Assistantships typically include tuition remission, health insurance, and a stipend.
The federal government has student employment programs of its own. While these won't pay your tuition directly, you should be able to earn a decent wage, and some student positions transition into regular positions when you graduate. The sheer number of federal agencies with offices in the D.C. Metro area makes these jobs well worth looking into, even if you're not looking for a long term career with the federal government.
Maryland residents pay in-state tuition, which is significantly less than out-of-state tuition. Virginia residents are also eligible for in-state tuition through the Academic Common Market because there are no ALA-accredited LIS programs in Virginia. If you're from out of state and would like to come to Maryland, I'd strongly recommend establishing residency first—I definitely wish I had. I had an assistantship for my second year, but took out loans to cover the first year of out of state tuition, which isn't cheap. Also, keep in mind the high cost of living in the region! (I yearn Columbus, Ohio rents.)
The Bottom Line
I took a few great classes at Maryland, and other classes ranging from adequate to irritating. After talking to many librarians who attended programs around the country, I expect this is pretty normal. What I think makes the iSchool experience stand apart are the practical experiences available in the D.C. area for students.
Is it worth moving here from out of state to attend the iSchool? In my opinion, no. There are good things about the program, but it's not so amazing different than any other that it's worth taking on that much debt. If you are a local resident (or are willing to establish residency before enrolling) it's a much better deal.
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October 15th, 2013
Can brain scientists read your mind?
What are you thinking about? You wouldn't always want the answer to that question available to others, but science may be heading in that direction.
For now, researchers are far from being able to tap into your thoughts. But a new study shows how, just by looking at brain activity, it may be possible to see whether or not you're thinking about numbers.
"The patient doesn't need to talk to you. They can think about numbers and you can see that red mark (corresponding with activity in a particular brain region) go up," said Dr. Josef Parvizi, associate professor of neurology at the Stanford University Medical Center and senior author of the study. The study is published in the journal Nature Communications.
These patients had electrodes implanted in their brains to locate the source of their seizures. Surgeons perform this procedure to isolate or remove the area where seizures begin.
The researchers used these electrodes that had been implanted for locating seizures to investigate brain activity in relation to thinking about numbers, particularly in the parietal lobe. In previous studies, this brain area has been shown to be important to a person's ability to do numerical calculations.
In one part of the experiment, patients looked at a computer screen while lying down and responded to prompts regarding the accuracy of statements. They would press "one" if the sentence or mathematical equation were correct, "two" if incorrect.
Each time a patient would perform a calculation, a group of neurons in the parietal lobe - specifically a region called the intraparietal sulcus - was very active, Parvizi said.
In another part of this study, researchers used a computer to trace the activity of the same group of neurons in the patients in an unconstrained setting. They recorded conversations between patients and experimenters, and juxtaposed the brain activity data to show the correlations between spiking activity in the math-related brain region and quantitative statements that patients made.
When patients were seeing, thinking or talking without a script, it seemed that the natural activation in the parietal lobe tended to occur right before they said something quantitative, Parvizi said. It didn't happen every time, of course; more research would be needed to verify these findings.
Oxford University researcher Roi Cohen Kadosh called this "an innovative study that shows a nice relationship between neuronal activity during experimental setting and everyday situations." But he pointed out that it is unclear whether the same results would be seen in healthy people, whose brains had not experienced seizures. Other studies have found multiple brain areas related to numerical understanding.
The bottom line: Just by looking at the data about brain activity, it may be possible to know when a person was thinking about numbers.
This is much simpler than trying to decode more specific thoughts from brain activity patterns. There's no way for scientists to know if you are daydreaming about hiking with your romantic partner, worrying about finishing a big project or making a grocery list.
"We are light years behind in doing such a thing. There is absolutely no way for us to kind of record what exactly the patient is thinking because that needs a lot of complicated decoding," Parvizi said.
Instead, this study presents a method of studying brain activity in order to get a general sense of what a person is experiencing through thoughts.
"Of course, it's just a matter of time (before) you're going to be able to decode brain activity in very complex conditions, such as thinking," Parvizi said.
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Furor over Rich Hill's 'gutless' comment dying down
The most familiar Cubs face from last year's brawl between Michael Barrett and A.J. Pierzynski is gone, but Rich Hill remains.
And judging by the way the Cubs left-hander pitched in his team's 2-1 win over the White Sox on Saturday at U.S. Cellular Field, he won't be headed down the same path he took last year.
"I feel like the questions are falling off a little bit. The fire is dying down day by day," Hill said of inquiries regarding his being outspoken in making comments about Pierzynski, and Hill's subsequent demotion to Triple-A Iowa last year. "That's all over with now. Whatever was said last year and going into this year, that's over with. I was excited for the chance to pitch here, and it gave me a chance to redeem myself after pitching so poorly against these guys last year."
Hill drew criticism from both Sox manager Ozzie Guillen and former Cubs skipper Dusty Baker after the May 21, 2006, game against the Sox, but not for the way he pitched.
He faced the fire for comments made after the now-infamous home-plate collision and brawl between Pierzynski and Barrett, who was traded to San Diego on Wednesday.
Though Hill later offered a sober apology for comments he admitted were made "in the heat of the moment," Hill dubbed Pierzynski's play "gutless" and quickly drew heat from the usually soft-spoken Baker for being too outspoken on the issue.
Guillen's tirade that followed included a suggestion that Hill should "shut up and pitch before he gets sent down."
On Saturday, Hill stood eerily close to the same spot in the visitor's clubhouse where he made his "gutless" comment, but he wasn't answering questions about any mistakes he made with his mouth or arm.
Instead, Hill spoke of his first solid outing in his last three starts. He allowed just one run on six hits in 5 2/3 innings in the Cubs' fourth win over the Sox in five games this season.
"The first two innings were a little shaky, and I wasn't pitching like myself," said Hill, who struck out six and walked two. "But I went back out there and I started attacking. I just wanted to stay aggressive."
The performance put to bed any concerns about his previous outing, a short-lived start against the San Diego Padres on June 17 in which he was hammered for five runs over just three innings and 52 pitches.
Hill admitted he's still working on earning back respect after his outspokenness, especially from Guillen and the Sox.
"The respect comes with time and with proving yourself time and time again," Hill said. "Good players and great players come around, and they earn respect by putting up the numbers. Let what you do on the field speak for itself."
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If I was ordered to take parenting classes, can I do them in another state?
Asked on January 4, 2013 under Family Law, Texas
B.H.F., Member, Texas State Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
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As long as the judge did not order you to take a class with a particular agency or counselor, then yes you can do them in another state. The main thing is that you take a comparable class somewhere. Some judges even allow parents to take their parenting classes online through certain pre-approved programs. Contact your district clerk and the court coordinator to see if this is an option in your county.
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Teen bride and reality show hopeful Courtney Stodden's Halloween hijinks make Anderson Cooper's RidicuList.
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Hi AC ,
I love you but I just wish you and others just STOP wasting time , energy to talk about TV TRash like Them .
The more you 'd talked and the more they will act up and thing will never end. Thanks
Doug, is Doug Hutchison who played the role of Percy, the totally psycho prison guard in the movie the Green Mile.
He was screwed up in the movie then and obviously is in real life today.
Your coverage of this crud encouraged me to reduce my cable service! I now only get basic cable. You often have great coverage of important/interesting issues and I was enjoying the heated debate on how our economy got into such state... but when you went to this story, I thought "what am I paying for this for?" So now, your not being invited into my home Anderson. You have been a great reporter Anderson. I'll check online perhaps.
Anderson – You gave me my laugh for the day and the whole week!! Your imitation of Courtney at the end of the video is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time!! OMG!! That was so funny – keep them coming – love your show and love you!!!
Hey Anderson that child bride is pretty obviously either drunk or on drugs all the time. Ok, yes it's funny, or would be if she weren't 17. It's actually kind of creepy. You ought to be pointing that out. I mean, she's not pamela anderson, she's still a kid, married to a creep, though that has nothing to do with my concern. My niece is 19 and it would disgust me to see her acting like this – this girl is under the influence of something and it isn't funny.
It's sad, because she is clearly on drugs (fidgeting, strange expressions, and wiping nose) and she is only a 17 year old.
WOW, her parents should have slapped her.
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A survivor who escaped the Costa Concordia cruise ship shares her frightening escape and her reaction to the captain's actions.
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How come the news casts never mention the name of the cruse line or no one interviews the cruse line itself about this accident.
Somebody gave his lady a 3 year old girl to take with her and rescue, and she gave the girl back to the parents saying: be with your daughter? Did I get it right?
While the behavior of the Captain and several senior officers is at the very least reprehensible, the far bigger issue is whether there exists a major design flaw in the building of the Concordia (and its many nearly identical vessels in the Carnival Corporation's fleet) Cruise ships are allegedly built so that if water seeps into one side of the vessel, a combination of watertight doors and pumps are supposed to either automatically or from an action on the Bridge, act so as to maintain an equilibrium in the ship's balance to prevent (or postpone) severe listing and eventual capsizing so that life boats on both sides of the ship can be safely deployed. Clearly that didn't work in this tragic event. The implications of this for all of the cruise industry's players are enormous. It seems to me that all the focus is being put on human error, to wit, the behavior of the captain and officers, is being done to avoid attention to this larger issue. And between the clout of the shipyard, Fincantieri, the cruise lines, the Italian unions and politicians, this is a cover up that Anderson Cooper 360 needs to explore and publicize.
I have never been on a cruise and had planned on going one in March,Well i guess I will not be going ,when I hear life boats not working,OK Sure this does happen often,But when are the life boats tested?
Ill just stay on dry land .
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Business update: US delays review of contentious Keystone pipeline
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is extending indefinitely its review of the Keystone XL pipeline, the State Department said Friday, likely punting the decision over the controversial oil pipeline past the midterm elections.
In a surprise announcement as Washington was winding down for Easter, the State Department said federal agencies will have more time to weigh in on the politically fraught decision — but declined to say how much longer. Officials said the decision will have to wait for the dust to settle in Nebraska, where a judge in February overturned a state law that allowed the pipeline's path through the state.
Nebraska's Supreme Court isn't expected to hear an appeal to that ruling until September or October, and there could be more legal maneuvering after the high court rules. So President Barack Obama will almost surely have until after the November election to make the final call about whether Keystone XL should be built.
"This decision is irresponsible, unnecessary and unacceptable," said Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, who faces a difficult re-election in oil-rich Louisiana. Landrieu said Obama was signaling that a small minority can tie up the process in the courts, sacrificing 42,000 jobs and billions in economic activity.
In an ironic show of bipartisanship, Republicans joined Landrieu and other Democrats like Sen. Mark Begich of Alaska in immediately condemning the announcement — the latest in a string of delays in a review process that has dragged on for more than five years.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., accused Obama of kowtowing to "radical activists" from the environmental community, while House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, called the decision "shameful" and said there were no credible reasons for further delay.
"This job-creating project has cleared every environmental hurdle and overwhelmingly passed the test of public opinion, yet it's been blocked for more than 2,000 days," Boehner said in a statement.
But environmental groups fighting the pipeline hailed the delay, arguing that it shows the State Department is taking the arguments against the pipeline seriously.
"This is definitely great news," said Tiernan Sittenfeld, senior vice president for the League of Conservation Voters. "We are very confident as they continue to examine the issues with the lack of legal route in Nebraska and the terrible climate impacts, at the end of the day the pipeline will be rejected."
Keystone XL would carry oil from western Canada's tar sands to refineries on the Texas Gulf Coast. The project requires State Department approval because it crosses an international border. The State Department vowed to move forward with other aspects of its review even while the situation in Nebraska remains in limbo.
"The agency consultation process is not starting over," the State Department said in a statement.


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Sealy proposes mixed-use development near Capitol Park
TUSCALOOSA | Sealy Management Co. has announced plans for a $20-$25 million mixed-use development at the corner of 28th Avenue and University Boulevard — the latest in a series of major projects proposed for downtown Tuscaloosa.
The development is expected to reach four stories, with a partial fifth story, contain 168 one- and two-bedroom units for a total of 221 bedrooms and have 5,190 square feet of retail space that could be expanded to almost 7,500 square feet.
Charlie Sealy III, vice-president of the company, said he hopes the yearlong construction project can begin in June.
"We want a diversity (of tenants)," Sealy said. "We don't want it to just be for college students.
"We're going against the grain in that respect."
Sealy said the development will be similar to a project the company recently completed in Huntsville called the Belk Hudson Lofts.
Using a historic downtown building, Sealy oversaw its conversion into an upscale residential high-rise that has almost completely filled since its October 2012 completion.
Sealy said he had expected the Belk Hudson Lofts to appeal primarily to young professionals, but tenants have ranged across a wide demographic spectrum, from young professionals to empty-nesters.
"It's every generation that likes it," Sealy said of the Huntsville development. "We're seeing this trend of people wanting to get back downtown."
For the retail space in the Tuscaloosa project, Sealy said he hopes to attract a restaurant, coffee shop or something similar that will cater to workers downtown.
Construction will mean the elimination of the building that now houses R&R Cigars, which opened on the corner of 28th Avenue and University Boulevard in January 2012.
The future of R&R Cigars is unknown. Efforts to reach the owners, Reagan Starner and his father, Randy Starner, were unsuccessful on Friday.
The Sealy development is the latest in a string of developments to be announced, break ground or be completed in or near the downtown area within the past 15 months.
Leading the way is Chance Partners of Atlanta, which has completed two downtown projects — one residential and one multi-use — and is expected to get final approval from the City Council on Tuesday for its most ambitious project yet: a $42-
million residential and retail development on a 7.6-acre riverfront site that once housed Tuscaloosa Chevrolet.
In September, the City Council approved a deal with the Wilson Hotel Management Group, a division of Kemmons Wilson Inc. that oversees hotel development and operations, that will lead to the construction of a $27 million hotel at the corner of University Boulevard and Greensboro Avenue.
KC LLC, a conglomeration of investors and developers, is behind the development of single- and multi-family housing planned for the Country Club of Tuscaloosa, which is making its way through the city's approval process.
The Sealy project will require a rezoning before it can proceed. That request will go before the city's Planning and Zoning Commission on April 15.
Sealy also will need a 44-foot-by 350-foot strip of land, now owned by the city of Tuscaloosa, that runs along Third Street on the north side of the 2-acre lot.
City officials were asked last week to convey the land, which is an old right-of-way tract for a railroad. The City Council's Properties Committee voted to recommend declaring the property surplus, conducting an appraisal and preparing a legal description of the property in order to sell it.
The rest of the parcel is owned by Capitol Park Center LLC, the real estate arm of the Tanner & Guin law firm.
Tanner & Guin attorney Thomas Scroggins manages Capitol Park Center, and said the land — all except for the railroad right-of-way — had been acquired over the past 25 years in anticipation of constructing something that would be right for the area.
Scroggins said Sealy was targeted after the Huntsville project began to take shape because of the attention to historic preservation and detail that is featured in the Belk Hudson Lofts.
"We're definitely excited about the project," Scroggins said. "We think it's going to be something different that you've not seen in downtown Tuscaloosa yet and it will bring a lot of attention to the Capitol Park area, which is sort of a treasure of our community."
It's location puts it right next to the historic park where the state capitol once stood as well as the Tuscaloosa Amphitheater, the edge of downtown Tuscaloosa and the city's Riverwalk recreational trail. Because of this, Sealy said the sidewalks will be wide — 20 to 25 feet — in order to blend in with the Riverwalk that starts at Capitol Park.
"The location immediately struck us as a really neat place for a nice, mixed-use development," Sealy said.


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CKCA, The Center for Kosher Culinary Arts, (1407 Coney Island Avenue,, Brooklyn, NY 11230; 718.758.1339) is right in the heart of the Midwood neighborhood of Brooklyn's Flatbush community. It is the only kosher cooking school in the US to offer professional level training in both Culinary and Baking and Pastry Arts.
I recently had the pleasure of attending a session of their Baking and Pastry Arts course, taught by Pastry Chef Mark Hellermann. Though I'm not part of the student body, I was enthralled by the instructors explanation and his easy, friendly style of teaching. His 20 years of experience as a Pastry Chef and teacher served him well.
Without exception the students seemed passionate about their interest in the subject matter. Without exception, each one strove to produce the best, visually enticing, delicious Bavarian pastries.
As soon as the pastries were ready, I could hear them calling out my name and my notorious sweet tooth knew just what to do about the situation. I started with the Pyramid Bavarian, a two toned combination of pureed fruits consisting, in this case, of mango and strawberry. It had just the right combination of tartness and sweetness, its texture was very smooth. Loved it! Actually… I had no choice but to devour the three that distinctly and pleadingly, called out to me. I segued with a Crème Caramel, very sweet but not overbearing, smooth… It too was delicious.
I followed with a rounded Strawberry Bavarian and a rounded Mango Bavarian. These Bavarians consist of three parts each, a thin sponge cake bottom, pureed fruit and the glaçage or mirroir top. This a jellied mirror like covering in the color of the particular fruit used in the puree.
The garnished Bavarians showed creativity, the very thin twill cookies adorning many of these came in all shapes and the cookie's crispness and pureed fruit combined to give each Bavarian a pleasant, inviting appearance.
This course is given four times a week, in four hour sessions for 10 weeks. Having obverved the students during the preparation, their passion and dedication to their tasks were palpable, I have no doubt they all have a bright future ahead!
The next course will start shortly after Pessach and run through June, don't forget to sign up by calling Jesse Blonder at:718.758.1339.


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Five ways to help your spirit this weekend
Ready for some fun assignments? Add these to your weekend to-do list:
1. Give yourself permission to try something new, even if it is as small as a new drink. Pops, near Edmond, Okla., has more than 500 kinds of soda. Maybe crack open a bottle of apple pie or a specialty root beer?
2. Build a fort. Even if there aren't any children around, forts make great places to escape and read. (If building forts becomes a regular thing you might consider sewing strings to the ends of a sheet. The strings make it much easier to attach to dining room chairs.)
3. Bring nature inside. You'll feel yourself relax every time it catches your eye.
4. Water down some glue and then use it to paint the inside of a jar. Sprinkle glitter. Add a tea light candle and a prayer.
5. When you start to feel the pressure of your neighbor's green lawn, your sister's new car and your friend's skyrocketing career, read this. Maybe memorize it. This is from Jeff Manion's book, "Satisfied." You can buy it in January.
"Comparison is a thief and a killer. Comparison robs you of gratitude and contentment. Comparison massacres joy…. Comparison is the enemy of the satisfied, generous life."


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Mystic's tasting room opening tomorrow
Sorry for the lack of posts lately, been stuck covering trials for the past couple of weeks.
However, I could not let the week go by without making sure that you know that one of my favorite brewery's, the Mystic Brewery, will open its brand new tasting room tomorrow at the brewery.
The tasting room will be open from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, and a tentative tap list has been announced. The beers scheduled are Saison Renaud, An Dreoilin, Descendant, Three Cranes, Vespula Mysticus, Day of Doom, Barrel-aged Old Powderhouse, Flor Ventus, Vinalnd one and the Mystic Table Beer (brewery only release).
Samples (two ounces) are complementary. There will also be growlers available, both 64 ounce and 32 ounce.
Tours will be $6 each.
The brewery is located 174 Williams St., Chelsea. I'm heading out with a friend, so if you're there, say hi.


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Urban Cottage with Transitional Coastal Interiors
The cottage was completed in May of 2015 by one of the top builders in California, Patterson Custom Homes, and architect Brandon Architects, Inc. Featuring casual transitional coastal interiors with a fresh hint of color, this urban cottage is not only a perfect place to live but also something to be inspired by.
I'm sharing many details with you in this post. So make sure to take notes on paint colors, lighting, backsplash, countertops, tiling, decor and more. I hope you have a great time!
Urban Cottage with Transitional Coastal Interiors
The exterior stone is El Dorado York Limestone.
Exterior Lighting is Elegance in Lighting, Lynnewood. $795 each.
Width: 11 inches
Depth: 4 inches
Height: 27 inches
Neutral Living Room Paint Color
The walls are Sherwin Williams SW 7010 White Duck and the ceiling is Behr Whisper White.
Pillows bring some color to this fairly neutral living room. Notice the beautiful limestone fireplace.
Windows & Doors
French doors with sidelights and transoms bring plenty of natural light in and creates a feeling of extra space in this small living room.
Dining Room
This dining room feels very casual and with a great energy thanks to natural light and bright colors incorporated into the space.
Dining table is Brownstone Village Trestle Table w/ Brownstone Upholstered Side Chairs by Legacy Classic Furniture. Both were purchased on Wayfair.
Side Chairs: The chairs were ordered from "Direct Buy". You can go to: Sammoore.com & (search) "Avery". It's an "Avery Host Chair". The chairs were then reupholstered in red fabric.
Rug: This is a handmade rug called "Bansee" (BAN-3348) that was ordered from Lazy-Boy.
The light is Worlds Away Rozz Clear Glass UFO with Antique Brass – $750.
The painting is entitled "Oceanview" by David Miller.
The plants are from Z Gallery.
This open-concept kitchen features sleek white cabinets, modern lighting and a whitewashed island with white quartz countertop.
The island is custom made by the builders local finish carpenter. It is made of white oak with a custom stain applied.
Kitchen Cabinet Paint Color
The cabinets are painted in Dunn Edwards Whisper White DEW340.
Backsplash is 1/2?x4? Prose Board. Color: Platinum Iridescent #046.
The perimeter countertop is Absolute Black Granite.
Door Hardware: The door hardware is Emtek Brass Hercules Lever in Flat Black.
Kitchen Faucet
The faucet is Waterstone 5300-PC and the garbage disposal is an Insinkerator IPRO 750.
Waterstone 5300-PC Faucet – $1,660.00
Island slab is Silestone White Zeus Quartz.
Kitchen Stools
The homeowner bought the barstools from Best Buy Furniture and had them recovered in a material of her choosing.
Kitchen Paint Color
The wall paint color is "Sherwin Williams SW7010 White Duck".
Breakfast Nook Lighting
The breakfast nook lighting is Worlds Away Mariah Pendant – $447.50.
Kitchen Pendants
Island pendant lighting is Caviar Adjustable Large Pendant from Arteriors Home – $696 each.
Family Room
This is the ultimate empty nesters' family room! The kitchen opens directly to a cozy family room with wet bar and custom glass wine cellar. It would be really fun to entertain here!
The family room opens to a private courtyard with outdoor fireplace.
Outdoor Kitchen
El Dorado York Limestone brings durability and character to this outdoor kitchen.
Powder Room
Lighting is Arteriors Ice Small Pendants DK42050 – $420 each.
Countertop is Absolute Black Granite.
Neutral Master Bedroom
Paint is "White Duck" by Sherwin Williams (SW7010).
The fireplace slab is Bardiglio Marble with a 2? miter edge detail.
Master Bathroom
I love everything about this bathroom, including the layout and the cathedral ceiling.
The freestanding tub is Victoria & Albert VMOZNSW "Mozzano" Unique Size Soaking Tub.
Vanity Bench
The bench was a gift from Patterson Custom Homes to the homeowner. It was custom-made by their local finish carpenter.
Black & White
Beautiful white cabinets contrast with black countertop. Black marble countertop is Bardiglio Marble.
Beautiful closet with mirrored door cabinets. This closet is roughly 14' x 14'.
Lighting: Feiss 3-Light Lucia Oval Chandelier, Burnished Silver – $857.70
Guest Bedroom
This guest bedroom features light gray carpet flooring and neutral walls.
Jack & Jill
The guest bedrooms open to a Jack and Jill bathroom. Countertop is Seagrass Limestone.
Teen Bedroom Decor
I like the quiet and masculine decor found here. This room is great for a teenage boy.
Ceiling Fan
Bedroom fan is Emerson Ceiling Fan CF765BS – $269 – Beautiful and affordable.. I like that! ??
Light Wood Hardwood Floors
Flooring is solid white oak with a custom stain applied after installation.
Laundry Room Paint Color
The cabinets are painted with Dunn Edwards Boat Anchor DE6377.
The laundry features a farmhouse sink and limestone countertop.
Home Exterior Paint Color
The exterior paint is Dunn Edwards' White DEW380, with the front door painted in Dunn Edwards' Ash Grey DEC751.
Cursive House Number: The builder have a private vendor that laser cuts the address out of plate steel, which is then powder coat and install on standoffs to give the shadow effect. Similar numbers can be found at Restoration Hardware.
Builder: Patterson Custom Homes
Architect: Brandon Architects, Inc.
Photos: Ryan Garvin.by:www.homebunch.com


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I've been terribly curious about the Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition since we first covered it back in November. This is a different beast from the flippy-touchscreen-equipped XPS 12—this Ultrabook contains zero touchscreens. However, it comes preloaded with Ubuntu Linux, and Dell has spent a substantial amount of time and effort in ensuring that it works—and works well.
|Specs at a glance: XPS 13 Developer Edition
|1920×1080 13.3-inch IPS, 165 PPI
|Linux - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
|2.0GHz Intel Core i7-3537U (Turbo Boost 3.1GHz)
|8GB 1600MHz DDR3L (non-upgradeable)
|Intel HD Graphics 4000 (integrated)
|Intel Centrino 802.11n, Bluetooth 3.0
|1x DisplayPort, 2x USB 3.0 (one PowerShare), stereo headphone/line out
|6-cell 47Whr Li-Polymer (non-replaceable)
|0.24 (at front)/0.71 (at rear) x 12.4 x 8.1 inches, 6 mm (at front)/18 mm (at rear) x 316 mm x 205 mm
|2.99 lb/1.36 kg
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|$1549 (no options available except addtional warranty)
In an effort originally known as Project Sputnik, Dell dedicated resources into doing Linux on an Ultrabook "right"—writing code where necessary (and contributing that code back upstream like a good FOSS citizen) and paying attention to the entire user experience rather than merely working on components in a vacuum. The result is a perfectly functional Ultrabook with a few extra tools—that "Developer Edition" moniker isn't just for show, and Dell has added some devops spices into the mix with this laptop that should quicken any developer's heartbeat.
Damning Linux with praise
Linux is not yet "ready for the desktop," and I'm doubtful it will ever be—at least not in the sense that an average person could use it full-time without any assistance. I've struggled before with using Linux as my full-time operating environment both at work and at home. I did it for years at work, but it was never quite as easy as I wanted it to be—on an older Dell laptop, keeping dual monitor support working correctly across updates required endless fiddling with
xorg.conf, and whether or not it was Nvidia's fault was totally irrelevant to swearing, cursing Past Lee, trying desperately to get his monitors to display images so he could make his 10am conference call without having to resort to running the meeting on the small laptop screen.
The remarkable thing about the XPS 13 Developer Edition is that it's so unremarkable—it has Ubuntu 12.04 LTS installed out of the box, and it simply works. The trackpad does two-finger scrolling (with inertia!) without having to add some random crazy guy's PPA and install extra packages. It picked up my Wi-Fi network and joined it without requiring me to do anything other than supply the passkey. It just worked.
It's an impressive achievement, and it's also a sad comment on the overall viability of Linux as a consumer-facing operating system for normal people. I don't think anyone is arguing that Linux hasn't earned its place in the data center—it most certainly has—but there's no way I'd feel comfy installing even newbie-friendly Ubuntu or Mint on my parents' computers. The XPS 13 DE shows the level of functionality and polish possible with extra effort, and that effort and polish together means this kind of Linux integration is something we won't see very often outside of boutique OEMs.
Diving in
The XPS 13 comes in a pretty black box. Packed in along with the computer is a warranty card, quick-start guide, and a small power brick and cable. There are also some cool "Project Sputnik" stickers, which is great because stickers are awesome.
The Developer Edition XPS 13 is externally identical to the regular one available via Dell's website. The clamshell lid is aluminum, and the laptop's bottom surface is coated in soft checkerboard patterned plastic. The palm rests and area around the keyboard are also plastic, though they feel almost rubberized—it's not at all unpleasant.
The left side of the laptop hosts the socket for the power adapter (which glows white when plugged in), a USB 3.0 port, and a headphone jack. The right side holds another USB 3.0 port, a mini DisplayPort for an external monitor, and, thoughtfully, a light-up meter to report on the health of the 47 watt-hour battery.
The trackpad isn't glass, but rather more rubberized plastic. The entire surface depresses when clicked, but there is a small indentation at the bottom to demarcate the left and right buttons.
The keyboard is unfortunately spongy, far more than I found comfortable. Key travel is short, but the keys don't bottom out with anything approaching authority, and the keypress effort is far too light for me. On the positive side, though, the chiclet-style island keys are backlit. I've grown so used to using a backlit keyboard that I'd now consider it a requirement for any laptop or Ultrabook (it's just very handy on the occasions that I need to look at the keyboard—like when typing a complex password).
The screen is glossy, which I like, a choice that will no doubt elicit an immediate "I HATE THIS AND WANT TO THROW IT OUT THE WINDOW" response for a lot of people. Along the top edge of the bezel is the integrated 720p camera flanked by a pair of microphones. The aluminum of the clamshell's top is visible peeking around the edge of the screen, providing an outline of all the black plastic and glass.
The entire visual effect of looking at the opened XPS 13 is very pleasing, and the black screen border coupled with the matte black keyboard and trackpad and palm rests creates a simple, monochromatic, clutter-free face that encourages engagement. I was especially happy to see that the palm rests were not gunked up with the typical annoying explosion of multicolored stickers—with the exception of a white-on-black Intel Core i7 sticker (which actually looks quite nice!)—so there's nothing to visually distract you from working.
My biggest complaint with the XPS 13 is that its lid isn't quite sprung and balanced for one-handed opening. You can hook the edge of a finger under the edge of the closed bezel and lift, but the whole computer comes with your finger, unfortunately; I had to do a bit of rocking or jiggling to make the bottom drop away from the lid. It's a little thing, but it's definitely an area where a little more engineering effort could have been spent.
Making with the Linux
If you've installed Ubuntu before, then you already know what the setup procedure for the XPS 13 DE looks like. The SSD-equipped laptop took about 10 seconds to boot the very first time and displayed a friendly Ubuntu intro movie—with sound. Is it bad if I say that I was impressed that sound worked right out of the box?
After that, the process was standard Ubuntu. I was prompted for my preferred language, then I had to agree to the EULA, and then I was presented with the Wi-Fi network picker. The trackpad—another often-broken peripheral under Linux—worked perfectly throughout setup and even had two-finger inertial scrolling enabled by default. The Wi-Fi picker found my WLAN and accepted my password, and I zipped through the rest of the setup.
One notable difference between the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS preinstalled on the XPS 13 DE and the current version of Ubuntu is that 12.04 doesn't give the user the option during setup to enable full-disk encryption since this wasn't added to the installer until 12.10. You can encrypt your home directory during setup, but not the entire disk—at least not without abandoning the guided setup process and doing it yourself.
After clicking through the prompts, I arrived at a familiar-looking blank Unity desktop.


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It's T minus one year and counting before the outer reaches of the atmosphere become a holiday destination.
Speaking at the 2013 Social Good Summit, the Virgin Group founder and serial entrepreneur claimed that commercial space travel is about to become a reality and that his company is still on track to start offering out-of-this world mini breaks in 2014.
A quick glance at the ticket prices for a trip on Branson's own Virgin Intergalactic craft, a $250,000 return, suggests that it will be a reality for a select few. Yet, the hefty price hasn't prevented the company from taking over $70 million in deposits to date from 580 potential space tourists.
And for critics who believe that commercial space flights are nothing more than an expensive thrill with no real purpose, Branson was quick to highlight that Virgin Galactic will actually help the world and be able to do 'transformative' things for it."We're going to be able to monitor if a ship is fishing illegally – we can spot it live through our satellites. We can check if people are hunting down rhinos,' he said.
Earlier this month, the company's spacecraft (the SpaceShip Two VSS Enterprise) and its carrier craft completed a second successful test flight, hitting supersonic speeds in the process.
Of the test, Branson said: 'We couldn't be more delighted to have another major supersonic milestone under our belts as we move toward a 2014 start of commercial service. It was particularly thrilling to see for the first time today the whole elegant system in action during a single flight, including the remarkable feathering re-entry system.'
Virgin Galactic plans to build a fleet of spacecraft, each capable of carrying six passengers on suborbital space flights. It means that holidaymakers won't be encountering any passing satellites but that they will get to experience true out-of-the-seat zero gravity as well as quite frankly astounding views of their home planet that until now, only the 500 or so people in history who have travelled beyond the Earth's atmosphere and into space have been able to see.
Even though the spacecraft won't be voyaging into deep space, star gazing will still be possible as a number of Hollywood's A-list have already signed up for seats, including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Kate Winslet, Justin Bieber, Ashton Kutcher and Leonardo DiCaprio.
And while it will no doubt be a life-defining moment for each and every one of the company's future travellers, those tourists' friends had better start getting ready for some incredibly monotonous holiday snaps of the same big blue and green sphere.


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Amid the rapid gunfire and spilled blood at this year's City of Lights/City of Angels (COLCOA) festival of new French cinema, curiously foreshadowing the "bloody Cannes" to come this May, there was at least one oasis of natural light and earthy allure. Raymond Depardon's La vie moderne is titled with more than a pinch of irony. These craggy farmers and other last remaining inhabitants of hillside hamlets are worlds removed from loudmouth Mesrine or the perplexingly damaged Girl on the RER, Parisian public enemies both. A photojournalist first (he joined Magnum in 1978), Depardon has been making feature films, mostly documentaries, for the past few decades. Here, he fills the CinemaScope screen with images equally vast and intimate. Though switching between so-called "talking head" shots and landscape-based "inserts," Depardon's film has an unfussy pictorial elegance that's belied by such tech-speak. Always at the kitchen table, he joins the Challayes for black coffee and butter cookies or just watches as Paul Argaud absent-mindedly smokes before a funeral mass warping like some alien frequency on his black-and-white TV set. More than scenes or interviews, these are instants of present-tense observance, edited together with the generous pacing of a memory.
La vie moderne concludes Depardon's decades-long trilogy tracking the denizens of rural France that offers an entirely unromantic yet lyrical view of agrarian life, with a chunky Occitan accent and obsolescence looming on the horizon. The film's first and final shots complete a diurnal cycle, floating into and out of the valley where the eighty-some-year-old brothers Privat and their nephew's family live somewhat inimically. Though it's a simple enough device, a car-mounted camera gliding over country roads lit by the endless summer sunset, with echoes of Kiarostami's itinerant drivers and the ruggedly calligraphic terrain they steer through, this winding forward and backward mainly recalls an unspooling film reel and both cinema's fragile promise of return and life's inevitable voiding of it.


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Astros prospect details drug struggle
KISSIMMEE, Fla. – Jon Singleton is considered the top first base prospect in baseball — a big, dynamic left-handed hitter with power and composure who can use the entire field.
He's one of the players expected to help the Houston Astros back to respectability after three straight 100-loss seasons.
All that despite a couple of significant setbacks. And for the first time publicly, he's opening up about his battle with an addiction to marijuana and monthlong stay at a rehabilitation center.
"At this point it's pretty evident to me that I'm a drug addict," he told The Associated Press over breakfast on a recent day near the Astros' camp. "I don't openly tell everyone that, but it's pretty apparent to myself."
Vividly so.
"I know that I enjoy smoking weed, I enjoy being high and I can't block that out of my mind that I enjoy that," he said. "So I have to work against that."
Hours after the AP story moved, the Astros released a statement and commended Singleton.
"We applaud Jon for the courage he has shown in tackling this issue head on. He has displayed a great deal of maturity and commitment over the past year and has the full support of the Astros organization," the team said. "He is on the right track for his baseball career, and, more importantly, for his life. We are very proud of Jon."
Singleton had steadfastly avoided discussing the subject for more than a year. But on this morning, he shared his story with disarming candor and ease, never once bristling at the increasingly prying questions.
The 6-foot-2, 235-pound Singleton — he's listed as Jonathan, but says he prefers Jon — sits up straight in a small booth, adjusts the baseball cap he's wearing backward and fills in the details of his private struggle.
The 22-year-old says he has stopped using marijuana and is better now. He's determined to rebound from a season that was all but lost because of his addiction and make his major league debut.
General manager Jeff Luhnow said Singleton could start the season with the Astros, but it's too early to know for sure. Singleton has been playing in the big league spring training games, and went 0 for 2 Monday in a 4-0 win over Miami.
"He's still young and still learning both about baseball and about life," Luhnow said.
It's no secret that Singleton, acquired by Houston from the Phillies in the 2011 trade for Hunter Pence, has had issues with marijuana. He was suspended for the first 50 games of last season for a second failed drug test. Back then, it was simply characterized as a mistake, or "a lapse in judgment" as his statement said.
That certainly wasn't the real story.
His first positive test came in June 2012 and he said he quit using marijuana for the rest of the season. He went on to hit .284 with 21 homers and 79 RBIs in his first season in Double-A.
At season's end, he went to the Arizona Fall League and quickly fell back into old habits.
He knew his situation was dire when he failed a second test in December 2012, but he continued to get high every single day.
The 50-game suspension came a month later and he was summoned to Houston to meet with manager Bo Porter and to see a therapist, who evaluated him for addiction. It was evident to him that he needed help.
Singleton was immediately admitted for a monthlong stay at an inpatient rehabilitation center.
"I knew I had a problem," he said. "Even after I failed the second drug test I couldn't stop smoking weed. It was really bad. Me going there was definitely the best move."
He didn't feel that way when he first entered. Fearing the unknown, he says he didn't sleep for three days straight.
"They would turn off the lights at 11:30 and I would just sit there and stare at the ceiling because I couldn't go to sleep," he said. "My heart was beating too fast. I would get night sweats. It was bad. I legitimately went through withdrawal."
Singleton desperately wanted to leave and wasn't open to the recovery process.
"But after I was there for so long it just grew on me," he said. "I was like, 'I'm going to be here for 30 days, so I might as well get the best out of it that I can.' I used it as a learning experience."
At a time when he should have been getting in shape for spring training and a chance to make Houston's major league roster, he instead spent his days attending classes and therapy sessions with other addicts in a program for young adults.
One thing he didn't do: Dwell on his missed opportunity.
"Not so much, because I knew I got myself into the situation so I had to deal with it," he said. "It wasn't like, 'I got myself here, now I hate myself.' It was like: 'I got myself here so I can't be mad at anybody but myself.'"
Though just 21 when he entered rehab, he'd already had a long history with marijuana, using the drug "on and off" since 14. He blamed his start on the culture growing up in Long Beach, Calif., where he estimated 80 percent of his friends not only knew where to get marijuana, but also how to get it within an hour.
Singleton clearly describes his first experience with the drug and how it made him feel. To put it simply, he fell in love with that feeling.
And that's what drove his addiction.
"I guess I just don't like being sober," he said. "I like to change the way I feel."
In rehab he had to identify why he needed it and how to alter his behavior to avoid its traps.
"I've got to the point now where I know what I am," he said.
His stint in rehab allowed him to quit using marijuana and he said he hasn't smoked since — a span of more than a year — even though he was moved to Houston's 40-man roster in October and can no longer be tested for the drug.
Last season when he made his debut in Triple-A after stopovers in both Low-A and Double-A following his suspension, he struggled.
He hit just .220 in 73 games and his old demons resurfaced.
"I went through some slight anxiety, some depression because I wasn't being successful," he said. "That was definitely difficult and that drove me to drink."
He admits to abusing alcohol as a substitute for marijuana, getting drunk almost every day and "waking up hung over every morning."
After the season he regrouped and prepared for the Puerto Rican winter league.
"I made up my mind to be my best, so hopefully better things happen because I'm not going out drinking and partying and doing all that kind of crazy stuff," he said.
His changes paid immediate dividends. He hit a league-leading nine homers in Puerto Rico and batted .268.
Singleton reported to camp in good shape and in a better place mentally than last spring, hoping to show Luhnow he's ready to compete for Houston's first base job.
The team has been supportive during his battle, but Singleton knows he'll have to stay clean to reach his goals.
He isn't receiving any treatment for his addiction, isn't currently in a program and doesn't have someone traveling with him to keep him on track.
Singleton is confident he can avoid a relapse by focusing on his opportunity, keeping better company and avoiding bad situations. He calls his life a work in progress and is focused on not being so hard on himself this season.
"Recently I've been more or less just sticking to myself and worrying about what I need to do to get better and become better as a person, not just a baseball player," he said.
If he's able to do that, the Astros foresee a big future.
"My expectation is that with everything that happened to him, we want to build up the positives from the end of last year," Luhnow said. "And get off to a real good start in Triple-A and then force his way onto the roster in Houston."


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The hackers who breached the defenses of Google and at least 34 other big companies three years ago have unleashed a barrage of new attacks since then, many that exploit previously undocumented vulnerabilities in software from Microsoft and Adobe, a new report has found.
The number of victims affected, the duration of the campaign, and the difficulty of identifying and exploiting so-called zero-day vulnerabilities mean the resources required "could only be provided by a large criminal organization, attackers supported by a nation state, or a nation state itself," the report (PDF), which was prepared by researchers from antivirus provider Symantec, concluded. Targets over the last three years have mainly been located in the defense, energy, and finance industries and educational and non-governmental organizations.
Most significant about the group is "seemingly an unlimited number of zero-day exploits," which refer to vulnerabilities in widely used software that are exploited before there's public knowledge that they exist. Using an infrastructure Symantec researchers have dubbed Elderwood—a name derived from a variable found in some of its software—the hackers have exploited four zero-day bugs this year alone, and evidence suggests the group has wielded another four zero-days over the past two years. The use of so many previously undocumented vulnerabilities indicates the group has an extremely high level of technical capability.
"In order to discover these vulnerabilities, a large undertaking would be required by the attackers to thoroughly reverse-engineer the compiled applications," the researchers wrote. "This effort would be substantially reduced if they had access to source code. The vulnerabilities are used as needed, often within close succession of each other if exposure of any of the vulnerabilities is imminent."
Update: Some security experts were skeptical of Symantec's conclusions. Finding and exploiting previously unknown vulnerabilities is a regular undertaking during penetration testing that's often carried out to success in a matter of hours or days.
"The fact that they use 0days isn't as big a deal as Symantec makes it out to be," said Rob Graham, CEO of penetration testing firm Errata Security. "We constantly find '0days' as part of pentests and use them against our customers. Just the other day, we used a 0day SQL injection bug in [popular manufacturer's name deleted] firewall to break into a customer."
There's no reason to think the attacks tracked by Symantec couldn't have been carried out by a much smaller operation with more modest resources, Graham said.
The group's attacks date back at least to early 2010 or late 2009, when it exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to pierce the defenses of Google and other large companies. With their malware inside Google's network, the attackers siphoned source code and other intellectual property of the company. Few if any of the other victims confirmed they were hit, but researchers widely believe their digital assets were also appropriated en masse.
The trojan that was installed by the exploits was alternately known as Aurora and Hydraq. It used a certain type of obfuscation to cloak its malicious behavior. Symantec researchers have found that same obfuscation technique deployed in trojans that malware operators installed by exploiting zero-days discovered earlier this year in Adobe's Flash Player (cataloged as CVE-2012-0779) and Internet Explorer (CVE-2012-1875).
The researchers found additional attributes linking other exploits to the same actors, such as similarities in the command and control channels that infected computers contacted to receive instructions and software updates. Another link was the practice of compromising third-party websites that were frequently visited by the ultimate targets of the attacks, for example, manufacturers in the defense supply chain or the Hong Kong branch of Amnesty International that was regularly visited by non-governmental organizations.
Researchers have dubbed this approach "watering hole" attacks, and say they're "similar to a predator waiting at a watering hole in a desert. The predator knows that victims will eventually have to come to the watering hole, so rather than go hunting, he waits for his victims to come to him."
The researchers noticed that many of these watering hole attacks used more than one zero-day exploit. What's more, the timing of these changes was suspicious. As soon as one zero-day exploit was identified, it would be replaced by one that had yet to be discovered. Other similarities included the malicious executable files used and the encryption in booby-trapped documents sent to victims in e-mail.
Perhaps the biggest link is the Elderwood platform. It included a document creation kit that made it easy to bundle specific exploit code and a specific piece of malware and embed it into an otherwise clean document file. Elderwood also included a shared Adobe Flash file that created the precise conditions in a targeted computer's memory required for an exploit to be successful. Other possible components may be tools for the automated creation of website accounts and registration of domain names, and an analysis platform for the huge amounts of data that is pilfered.
APTs: Not your father's hack attack
Google's disclosure in 2010 that it and more than a dozen other sensitive companies were penetrated by the sophisticated attackers cemented the security industry's use of the phrase advanced persistent threat. Although many, this reporter included, once viewed it as a largely meaningless buzz phrase, APTs are useful in distinguishing these types of attacks from more common crime-motivated exploits. The chief difference is this: crime-based attacks, which use malware to obtain online banking passwords or credit card data, are opportunistic, so they're directed at everyone. Defending against them mainly involves having security that's better than other people on the Internet.
APTs, by contrast, are directed at a specific person or organization that has unique assets. If attackers don't succeed against a specific target with one campaign, they'll direct a new campaign at the same target and hope for better results. They will repeat the process until they succeed. That makes defending against such attacks significantly harder.
Friday's report from Symantec, which showed that the same attackers who pierced the defenses of Google three years ago are using a virtually unlimited supply of zero-days to penetrate new victims, only bolsters the view that APTs are a serious problem with no easy solutions.
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Fight at the Flag.
You'll hear this saying many, many times in battleground chat. If I could only give one piece of advice for how to fight well in the battlegrounds, this would be it. It's that important.
When you hear people saying this, it is both a reminder and a warning — make sure that when you engage the enemy, you do so at a strategic point. The key is fighting where your battle has meaning, and not needlessly dying over a piece of dirt that means nothing.
In most battlegrounds, the strategic points are the flags. In some, like Arathi Basin and Warsong Gulch, they're the whole game. In others, they are part of a strategy, usually of resource or base control. And if there's a flag to be captured, you should most likely be fighting next to it. An 8-second lull in the battle is enough to capture a node, but you can't do that if you're not near it.
The offense should do whatever they can to get to that flag. Get up the AV tower and fight around the ring of the bunker, get to the EoTS node and stay there, ride as close up as you can to the AB flag and click it when they're not looking. In Warsong Gulch, you should be relentlessly pursuing the EFC to kill and retake your flag.
Because it takes so little time to capture a flag, defenders should remain in range and in LoS of the flag to prevent it from getting captured. This doesn't mean all defenders should be at the flag at all times, but it does mean that some of your force needs to physically protect that flag. Depending on the terrain and situation, it's often appropriate for some of the defense to move forward to hit the offense before they can get to the flag, as establishing distance from the flag always favors the defense. If you can push the offense away from the node, then they are less able to capture it. But you have to be near it to protect it.
Now, there are strategic and tactical reasons for not fighting at the flag, almost all defensive. The bridge at Dun Baldar and gatehouse at Frostwolf Village in Alterac Valley come to mind; they give too much tactical defensive value to yield unfought. There can be tactical value in the surrounding structures and terrain which you should take. But the further you get away from the flag, the less safe it actually is.
This idea should be straightforward. You have to be near the flag in order to take it. You have to take the flag to win it. Ergo, fight near the flag.
But that's not the only reason why you should fight at the flag.
Arathi Basin is the canonical Fight at the Flag battleground. There are 5 nodes arranged in a diamond shape around a central point. Each node has a flag next to a building of some sort, and can be captured by clicking on it and channeling for 8 seconds. When you capture a node, you control the resources from that node, and you gain control of the adjacent graveyard. The nodes are interconnected through a series of roads and bridges.
Here's a map of Arathi Basin. (You've been there before, I hope.) The white circles are the nodes with approximate flag location, the squares are the graveyards.
The road areas in pink are bad places to fight. Even though they are choke points, they are the most worthless areas of the map to contest, and not just because they aren't near a flag.
It's also because they're not near a graveyard.
Death in PvP is a temporary thing. It's like a 30 second penalty that strips all of your party buffs. It also sends you to an out-of-the-way location to rez; in AB it's on the other side of whatever structure is at that node. So if you die while defending a node, you have up to 30 seconds to wait to get rezzed, another 5 seconds to rebuff, and then 5-10 seconds to get back to the flag. So depending on your luck, you might be back in 15 or 45 seconds. As long as the flag stays in your team's possession during that time, all defenders will come back.
The offense has a tougher time of it. The penalty for dying is getting sent back to a graveyard you do control, which may be on the other side of the map. So while you might have an epic battle going for the Lumber Mill, if you haven't captured any graveyards yet, your reinforcements are going to go back to the spawn point, not to the Stables or Farm — even though you may have assaulted those flags. Graveyard placement is vital.
Let's continue with Arathi Basin to illustrate this point further. We'll take a traditional 5/5/5 middle offense versus an 8/7 hook rush.
The Farm and Stables are assaulted as a matter of course. The Horde attacks strong-side (Lumber Mill and Blacksmith) while Alliance sends 5 to each node. Assuming no huge individual imbalances at any given fight, they should result in the following map:
The vital thing to notice here is that NO graveyards are captured yet, only the spawn points. Everyone is on offense, so death means you get sent halfway across the map. Because the Horde outnumbers the Alliance at their chosen nodes, they take them with fewer losses than the Alliance are able to inflict. So the Alliance has 2/3rds of their team sent back to their spawn point, while far smaller percentage of the Horde resets.
While all this is happening, the close graveyards (Stables, Farm) start flipping as the nodes are actually captured. However, the battle is already turning against the Alliance:
With only two nodes solidly in either faction's control, the Horde is in a much better position as they move into the next set of fighting because of the graveyards. As 2/3rds of the Horde assault the Stables, they are about to have two graveyards come under their control. If they fought at the flag and assaulted the node early in the first fight, then they will have one or two nearby graveyards to reinforce the Stables fight. The Alliance is in worst shape; they have a weak force entering hostile territory, with reinforcements coming from three sides.
Removing the vectors, this is where your people will be.
This is why you fight at the flag. Right here is the entire match — if the Horde can take the Stables Graveyard from the Alliance, then all reinforcements from the main battle will go back to Trollbane Hall, completely isolating the Alliance offense. If the Horde fails to take the Stables, they still have the close graveyards of the Blacksmith and Lumber Mill to regroup at and hold to apply pressure on the Stables and Gold Mine.
If the Alliance can take the Farm graveyard, they strengthen their position and disrupt the Horde's march to a 4-5 cap. They'll send the Horde back to the spawn point or the Blacksmith. They're at a disadvantage compared to the Horde due to having to divide their forces between the Mine and the Farm, but it's the best they can do with the situation. If the Horde shifts away from the Lumber Mill, or sends troops back from the Stables to take the Gold Mine, the Farm offensive is in real trouble.
I've been talking in terms of holding engagements near the flag at each node. Let's consider what happens if you fight in the road, instead of at the flag.
If the Horde engages away from the Stables flag:
- Horde casualties will go back to the Blacksmith, or maybe the Lumber Mill (depends on which road and where.)
- Alliance casualties will stay at the Stables.
If the Alliance engages away from the Farm flag:
- Alliance casualties will go back to the Gold Mine, which will be vulnerable to attack.
- Horde casualties will to stay at the Farm.
If they both do these things, then the map will stay exactly as it is right now, with Horde leading 3-2.
If one group fights at the flag and takes the graveyard away from the opposition, however, they increase their odds of winning dramatically. Alliance has a shot of going 3-2, and the Horde can dominate with a 4-1 (and should go for a 5 cap at that point.)
Here's what phase 3 looks like if both sides fight at the flag.
Now, the Horde still has the upper hand at this point, but the Alliance has driven a wedge into their march to a 5 cap. Whichever side is able to continue to send dead opponents away from nodes will come out on top, and the only way to do that?
That's right. Fight at the flag.
Arathi Basin is one thing, where the graveyards and nodes are right next to each other. But does that mean that "Fight at the Flag" is universal?
Yes. Yes, it does.
- In Warsong Gulch, you should be fighting to protect your flag carrier or trying to kill the enemy flag carrier. All other places where you fight — midfield, in the enemy base, in your base — all need to be considered with where the two flags are relative to you. I'm not against fighting in midfield per-se; it just needs to be done with an awareness of what you're doing (forward defense of your flag, clearing a path for your flag carrier, etc.).
- In Alterac Valley, the towers and graveyards are separate, but each one requires several minutes between assault and capture. If you do not defend the flag once you've assaulted it, you deserve to have it recaptured by the enemy.
- In Eye of the Storm, the bases serve as the flags, and are what you should focus on. The presence of an actual flag confuses things, but you really don't want to fight at it unless you have to. This is the only place where I'd say "Fight at the Base" instead of "Fight at the Flag," because 3 bases > flag.
- In Strand of the Ancients, the walls and graveyards are separate, and while you have to carefully manage which you capture, the walls are your main objective. Getting stuck in a firefight on the beach means your demolishers can't hit the walls. (Consequently, fighting on the beach or on the roads favors the defenders.)
- In the Isle of Conquest, control of a node equals control of a nearby graveyard, as well as special abilities or vehicles that you need to win. If you can capture the enemy Keep, you make it very difficult for defenders to reinforce the generals.
Fighting at the flag is the one strategy that applies to all of the Warcraft battlegrounds. (Yes, even EotS. Hush.) You fight at the strategic points to both seize control of the key resources of the battleground and to redistribute your opponents to your advantage.
So take my advice. Fight at the flag.


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